Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 35 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -18 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 334 271 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.83% 6.92% 7.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.45% 38.01% 29.97%
Number of salaries quoted 216 115 228
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,050 £38,284
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,770 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,565 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +1.03% -18.52%
75th Percentile £65,625 £78,125 £73,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £94,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,062 713 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 18.20% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 831 421 913
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year - +6.66% -6.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,565 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% +1.03% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire +6 155 £60,000 -5.88% 137
Berkshire +16 115 £60,000 +26.26% 125
Buckinghamshire -5 64 £52,500 -4.55% 47
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.80%) Confluence
3 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.60%) WordPress
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (10.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.50%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.90%) Simulink
4 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.30%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.60%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 146 (43.71%) Azure
2 121 (36.23%) AWS
3 50 (14.97%) Power Platform
4 49 (14.67%) Azure AI
5 32 (9.58%) GitHub
6 25 (7.49%) Azure Sentinel
6 25 (7.49%) GCP
7 18 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (4.49%) Serverless
10 14 (4.19%) Cloudflare
11 13 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.18%) Firewall
2 33 (9.88%) DNS
3 17 (5.09%) VPN
4 14 (4.19%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.99%) DHCP
6 9 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (2.69%) Wireless
7 8 (2.40%) SSL
8 7 (2.10%) VLAN
9 6 (1.80%) HTTP
10 5 (1.50%) MQTT
11 4 (1.20%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.60%) Internet
12 2 (0.60%) IPv4
12 2 (0.60%) IPv6
12 2 (0.60%) SNMP
12 2 (0.60%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.30%) DNSSEC
13 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (14.37%) Power BI
2 31 (9.28%) Tableau
3 28 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.89%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.69%) Metadata
6 9 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.40%) Star Schema
8 7 (2.10%) Amazon QuickSight
8 7 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.10%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.10%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (1.80%) Airbyte
9 6 (1.80%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.80%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.50%) MySQL
11 4 (1.20%) Redis
12 2 (0.60%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 51 (15.27%) Git
2 22 (6.59%) GitLab
3 19 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.89%) JIRA
5 8 (2.40%) JUnit
5 8 (2.40%) LabVIEW
6 7 (2.10%) JMeter
6 7 (2.10%) Mockito
7 6 (1.80%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.50%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.90%) PetaLinux
10 3 (0.90%) Polyspace
10 3 (0.90%) VectorCAST
11 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.60%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.60%) Mocha
11 2 (0.60%) Selenium
12 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 131 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (10.18%) Manufacturing
4 24 (7.19%) Finance
5 12 (3.59%) Aerospace
5 12 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (2.99%) Electronics
6 10 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.99%) Retail
7 9 (2.69%) Automotive
7 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.10%) Health Technology
8 7 (2.10%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.50%) Legal
10 4 (1.20%) Banking
11 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.90%) Marketing
12 2 (0.60%) Law
12 2 (0.60%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 85 (25.45%) Software Engineer
2 73 (21.86%) Python Engineer
3 61 (18.26%) Senior
4 56 (16.77%) Python Software Engineer
5 52 (15.57%) Analyst
6 39 (11.68%) C++ Software Engineer
7 32 (9.58%) Data Analyst
8 28 (8.38%) Developer
8 28 (8.38%) Junior
9 27 (8.08%) C# Software Engineer
9 27 (8.08%) Junior Analyst
9 27 (8.08%) Junior Data Analyst
10 25 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 23 (6.89%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (6.29%) AWS Software Engineer
13 20 (5.99%) Data Engineer
13 20 (5.99%) Network Engineer
14 19 (5.69%) Java Engineer
15 15 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 14 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.08%) React
2 26 (7.78%) Terraform
3 24 (7.19%) REST
4 19 (5.69%) Django
4 19 (5.69%) JSON
5 14 (4.19%) HTML
6 12 (3.59%) NumPy
6 12 (3.59%) Pandas
7 11 (3.29%) Node.js
8 10 (2.99%) Vue
8 10 (2.99%) XML
9 9 (2.69%) Spring
9 9 (2.69%) Spring Boot
9 9 (2.69%) Web Services
10 8 (2.40%) YAML
11 7 (2.10%) .NET
11 7 (2.10%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (2.10%) Apache Camel
11 7 (2.10%) CSS
11 7 (2.10%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (6.59%) Distributed Computing
2 22 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (4.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 14 (4.19%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.29%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.29%) Life Science
7 11 (3.29%) Robotics
8 10 (2.99%) Embedded Systems
9 9 (2.69%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.40%) Fibre Optics
10 8 (2.40%) IoT
10 8 (2.40%) PKI
11 7 (2.10%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.80%) CSOC
12 6 (1.80%) Hackathon
12 6 (1.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (23.05%) Linux
2 35 (10.48%) Windows
3 6 (1.80%) Debian
4 3 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.90%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (0.90%) Gentoo
5 2 (0.60%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.60%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (33.23%) AI
2 103 (30.84%) Software Engineering
3 85 (25.45%) CI/CD
4 83 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (21.56%) Agile
6 59 (17.66%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (17.07%) DevOps
8 44 (13.17%) Analytics
9 42 (12.57%) Computer Science
10 40 (11.98%) Machine Learning
11 36 (10.78%) Data Modelling
12 35 (10.48%) Test Automation
13 34 (10.18%) Containerisation
13 34 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (10.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 33 (9.88%) SIEM
15 27 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (7.78%) Mentoring
16 26 (7.78%) Microservices
16 26 (7.78%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (24.85%) SQL
2 67 (20.06%) C++
3 55 (16.47%) C#
4 48 (14.37%) JavaScript
5 42 (12.57%) PowerShell
6 40 (11.98%) Java
7 37 (11.08%) TypeScript
8 33 (9.88%) Bash
9 13 (3.89%) C
9 13 (3.89%) Go
10 11 (3.29%) MATLAB
11 10 (2.99%) Rust
12 9 (2.69%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.80%) Groovy
13 6 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.50%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.20%) Perl
15 4 (1.20%) Ruby
16 2 (0.60%) R
16 2 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (24.55%) Degree
2 51 (15.27%) Azure Certification
3 49 (14.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (10.48%) Security Cleared
5 31 (9.28%) SC Cleared
6 27 (8.08%) Master's Degree
7 17 (5.09%) PhD
8 15 (4.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (2.40%) CISSP
10 7 (2.10%) CompTIA CySA+
10 7 (2.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (1.80%) GCIA
11 6 (1.80%) GIAC
12 5 (1.50%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.50%) CCNA CyberOps
12 5 (1.50%) CEH
13 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.28%) QA
2 22 (6.59%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.89%) GDPR
4 7 (2.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.50%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.90%) ECSS
7 3 (0.90%) IEC 61508
7 3 (0.90%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.60%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 47 (14.07%) Docker
2 23 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.59%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.79%) Active Directory
5 14 (4.19%) KVM
6 6 (1.80%) vSphere
7 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.60%) Firmware
8 2 (0.60%) iptables
Systems Management
1 46 (13.77%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.49%) Graylog
3 12 (3.59%) Ansible
4 10 (2.99%) Grafana
4 10 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.40%) Kibana
5 8 (2.40%) Proxmox
5 8 (2.40%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.80%) Argo
7 4 (1.20%) Kustomize
7 4 (1.20%) Packer
7 4 (1.20%) Podman
8 3 (0.90%) Istio
9 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
9 1 (0.30%) WMI
Vendors
1 87 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.89%) VMware
3 10 (2.99%) Databricks
3 10 (2.99%) Splunk
4 9 (2.69%) Cisco
5 8 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (2.40%) IBM
5 8 (2.40%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.40%) Veeam
6 7 (2.10%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.10%) Informatica
6 7 (2.10%) Talend
7 5 (1.50%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.50%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.50%) New Relic
7 5 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.20%) Oracle
8 4 (1.20%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.90%) Darktrace
9 3 (0.90%) OpenAI